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annotate man/masqmail.aliases.5 @ 286:e2f6eefbd573
further, minor, improvements to man/masqmail.8
author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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date | Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:21:07 -0300 |
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meillo@228 | 1 .TH masqmail.aliases 5 2010-07-23 masqmail-0.3.0 "File Formats" |
meillo@34 | 2 |
meillo@0 | 3 .SH NAME |
meillo@0 | 4 masqmail.aliases \- masqmail alias file format |
meillo@34 | 5 |
meillo@34 | 6 |
meillo@0 | 7 .SH DESCRIPTION |
meillo@0 | 8 |
meillo@34 | 9 This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. |
meillo@34 | 10 Its usual location is \fI/etc/aliases\fR. |
meillo@34 | 11 |
meillo@0 | 12 |
meillo@0 | 13 .SH FILE FORMAT |
meillo@0 | 14 |
meillo@0 | 15 The alias file consists of lines of the form: |
meillo@0 | 16 local_part: item1, item2, ... |
meillo@34 | 17 Items can be surrounded by double quotes `"'. |
meillo@34 | 18 If within the quotes other quotes are needed for an address they can be |
meillo@34 | 19 escaped with a leading backslash `\\'. |
meillo@0 | 20 |
meillo@34 | 21 A leading backslash `\\' indicates that this address shall not be further expanded. |
meillo@0 | 22 |
meillo@34 | 23 A leading pipe symbol `|' indicates that the item shall be treated as a pipe command. |
meillo@34 | 24 The content of the message will then be sent to the standard input of a command. |
meillo@34 | 25 The command will run under the user id and group id masqmail is running as. |
meillo@34 | 26 If quotes are needed, the pipe symbol must appear within the quotes. |
meillo@0 | 27 |
meillo@0 | 28 Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored. |
meillo@0 | 29 |
meillo@34 | 30 Aliases will be expanded at delivery time. |
meillo@34 | 31 This means that if there is a message still in the queue and you change |
meillo@34 | 32 any alias which matches one of the recipient addresses, |
meillo@34 | 33 the change will have effect next time a delivery is attemped. |
meillo@0 | 34 |
meillo@0 | 35 There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the alias file has been changed. |
meillo@0 | 36 |
meillo@34 | 37 |
meillo@0 | 38 .SH AUTHOR |
meillo@0 | 39 |
meillo@34 | 40 Masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth. |
meillo@34 | 41 It is now maintained by Markus Schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>. |
meillo@0 | 42 |
meillo@95 | 43 You will find the newest version of masqmail at \fBhttp://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail/\fR. |
meillo@26 | 44 There is also a mailing list, you will find information about it at masqmail's main site. |
meillo@0 | 45 |
meillo@34 | 46 |
meillo@0 | 47 .SH BUGS |
meillo@0 | 48 |
meillo@34 | 49 Please report bugs to the mailing list. |
meillo@34 | 50 |
meillo@0 | 51 |
meillo@0 | 52 .SH SEE ALSO |
meillo@0 | 53 |
meillo@34 | 54 \fBmasqmail.conf(5)\fR, \fBmasqmail(8)\fR, |